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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Mech Behav Biomed Mater. 2014 Aug 17;40:59–68. doi: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2014.08.002

Figure 6.

Figure 6

SEM analysis demonstrated mineral bonding between fibers. (white arrows: mineral bridges; arrowheads: mineral bridge fractures, black arrows: polymer fibers with little to no mineral. Scale bars = 5 µm, inset scale bar = 1 µm) (A) An image from a 10SBF scaffold shows a fractured mineral bridge with crystalline morphology. (B) An image from the m10SBF group shows a more conformal layer of mineral that bonds adjacent fibers. Inset is magnified image of a mineral bridge fracture.